New Jersey Ged
Q. Almost certainly spending more money would improve the education of those students. But, the point was (I think) that NJ already spends an unusually high amount of money, and yet isn't getting efficient returns on it. Who knows whether New Jersey is or is not getting an "efficient" return? Presumably you do, since you know whether spending more money in New Jersey schools is important (or think you know). If you've got a kid from a non-English speaking home who lives in a tenament and whose (single) mom would prefer to spend money on drugs and lottery tickets rather than on books and food, just graduating that kid from high school with minimum competancy might be as much a 'success' as getting Chelsea Clinton into Stanford. Besides some absurdo stereotyping of people from New Jersery, what, exactly, is the argument re the importance of money here?
A. Nonsense - I've no idea whether New Jersey needs more funding or not. Perhaps, given the demographics of their school age population, they are getting reasonable results with the resources they currently utilize. Or, perhaps they are wasting large amounts of money and could do more with less. But the point was not whether NJ needs more or less money than they currently are spending. The point was that the two statistics of New Jersey's average spending per pupil and average student acheivement levels are meaningless with out some examination of the demographics of the New Jersey student population as well as the cost of living in New Jersey. It would, in addition, be useful to examine just -what- is included in the NJ average spending per pupil number - some states and school districts tuck all sorts of "extra" programs in their school budgets while others fund those types of programs through other agencies. For instance, if New Jersey funds its GED programs through the local school districts, its K-12 educational costs would appear higher than in another state, such as Oregon, which funds its GED programs through the community colleges, even though they might be spending identical amounts on GED programs. The -costs- would be the same - but only in New Jersey would those costs be included in the K-12 "average spending per student" figures. There is no stereotyping - just a statement that the numbers previously presented tell us -nothing- about what the demographics of, or the reasonably expected success rate for, New Jersey school kids might be. As to the importance of money, well that seems self-evident. If you want an English as a Second language teacher to help with kids from non- English speaking backgrounds, ya' gotta -hire- an ESL teacher with MONEY. A school district with few or no kids from non-English speaking homes needs to hire few or no ESL teachers while a district with lots of kids who don't speak English needs to hire lots. Hiring lots of ESL teachers costs more money than hiring few or none.
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